Punan
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Over decades, the Indonesian government stripped the Punan of their ancestral lands and encouraged them, sometimes forcibly, to settle in ready-built villages.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Kharis, a young member of the Punan Batu, played a guitar made of terap wood at a rock shelter in Sadau, Borneo.Credit...
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
In 2002, a census of the Punan in eastern Borneo focused only on the villages, because so few nomads were thought to exist.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Unlike the Indigenous farmers, who lived in long houses, the Punan roamed the island’s northern rainforest in family groups, hunting bearded pigs, harvesting starchy plants and gathering forest products for trade.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Although his material possessions are so few, the Punan is not capable of fashioning all of them by his own independent efforts.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
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